Yahoo hosting caters to small biz

FrankBarnako

SUNNYVALE, Calif. (CBS.MW) - Yahoo hopes to generate big dollars by providing Web site and e-commerce services to small businesses. The company introduced a trio of options Monday, with pricing beginning at $11.95 a month.

"Yahoo
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enables small businesses to get online, sell online and market and promote online, all in one place," said Rich Riley, vice president and general manager. All levels of the service include domain name registration, a business version of Yahoo mail, access to e-storefronts and promotion through Yahoo's directory.

Pew: Spam onslaught exaggerated

Junk e-mail has not killed the e-mail star yet, at least not at the office. Slightly more than half of the people questioned by the Pew Internet & American Life Project said they received no spam in their work e-mail boxes. Another 19 percent said unsolicited mail is 10 percent or less of their incoming messages. The study's author, Deborah Fallows, said office workers get less spam because their e-mail addresses are more difficult for mailers to collect. "Business or organizational accounts are small prey compared to the rich targets presented by the big e-mail providers like AOL, MSN, Yahoo or Hotmail," Fallows wrote.

Broadband boffo in the Bay

Twice as many households are wired for high-speed Internet access in the San Francisco Bay area compared to the national average. A survey by the Field Institute for the Bay Area Council estimated 28 percent of residents in the region have a high-speed cable modem or DSL connection at home. DSL is the preferred technology, in contrast to national studies that show cable modems more popular. AT&T
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the area's major cable company, offers high-speed access to only half its 2.6 million available homes. The poll found 68 percent of Bay area residents regularly use a computer at home, and 92 percent of those making more than $80,000 a year have high-speed access, the Mercury News reported.

Webcast listeners younger, richer

Internet radio listeners tend to be younger and more affluent than Internet users in general, according to the Media Audit, a market research firm. In a study of 12,034 radio Web site users, 46 percent of listeners were found to be 18 to 34 years old, compared to 37 percent of the overall Web audience. And 36 percent of radio visitors have incomes exceeding $65,000, compared to 34 percent for the Web in general.

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